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It's a qualitative judgment. If Michigan chooses to go with Doug Karsch, then so be it. I'm sure he'd do fine. But putting scholastic background aside, I think there are much better choices than Doug Karsch. I'd prefer someone with a more established play-by-play career. Factor in his background as an MSU alumnus, and I'd prefer Michigan go in another direction for the play-by-play spot.

I'm a 2011 Michigan grad and current PSU law student. I'll be drenched in Maize and Blue and can't wait for Saturday.

As far as parking goes, it seems most of the aforementioned posts are accurate in terms of the $40 gameday fee.

The two most popular tailgating areas are (1) on the intramural fields located along Park Avenue (across the street from Beaver Stadium), and (2) in the fields behind Medlar Park (the baseball stadium) located on Porter (near the intersection of Porter and Curtin). I strongly suggest the Park Avenue option. Park Ave. seems to be the preferred option for most Penn Staters and I have found the general energy and vibe to be much better than at option (2).

Parking in downtown State College in the College Ave/Beaver Ave area is a third option, but is fairly removed from the primary tailgating locations (think Maynard Street deck in AA).

I am a current PSU grad student (UM alum) and one of the other problems with the Penn State policy is that they altered the sections comprising the "student section" this season. The student section previously followed a similar arrangement to that of UM, but this season, the student section was shifted further around the endzone and extending around only to approx. the goal line. As a result, season ticket holders were once again displaced (from the endzone)...arguably with hopes they would upgrade their seats to the previous sections comprising the student section (from around the goal line to the 30 yd. line). Obviously, these seats were more expensive to begin with. The concrete price difference, combined with the emotion vitriol of displaced ticket holders to the athletic department has culminated into general displeasure with the new policy and decreased ticket sales

The example of a "home and home" series is a nice concept, under the assumption that M would play a respectable opponent. However, we currently participate in a home/home series with Notre Dame. Once the Notre Dame annual matchup subsides, we could obviously replace it with another "high-profile" matchup.

With that being said, it makes little sense whatsoever to "ramp up" M's non-conference strength of schedule (from its current state), given that as a member of a "Power Conference," strength of schedule plays a marginal role (at best) in post-season posturing. Especially considering the addition of a B10 Championship game, there is absolutely no reason to unnecessarily strengthen M's schedule when other power institutions are not acting similarly. The path to the B10 Championship game is tough enough--given a situation in which we survive that schedule unscathed, it would be ludicrous for M to shoot itself in the foot by potentially losing an unnecessarily challenging non-conference game.

I realize early-season "snoozers" can be boring, but we need to schedule in the best way possible so as to give M the best possible chance of reaching another National Title contest--not prevent it.

The example of a "home and home" series is a nice concept, under the assumption that M would play a respectable opponent. However, we currently participate in a home/home series with Notre Dame. Once the Notre Dame annual matchup subsides, we could obviously replace it with another "high-profile" matchup.

With that being said, it makes little sense whatsoever to "ramp up" M's non-conference strength of schedule (from its current state), given that as a member of a "Power Conference," strength of schedule plays a marginal role (at best) in post-season posturing. Especially considering the addition of a B10 Championship game, there is absolutely no reason to unnecessarily strengthen M's schedule when other power institutions are not acting similarly. The path to the B10 Championship game is tough enough--given a situation in which we survive that schedule unscathed, it would be ludicrous for M to shoot itself in the foot by potentially losing an unnecessarily challenging non-conference game.

I realize early-season "snoozers" can be boring, but we need to schedule in the best way possible so as to give M the best possible chance of reaching another National Title contest--not prevent it.

I didn't notice any mention of Craig Roh. In the new scheme, I'm assuming he will be moved to a linebacker position. Up to this point, despite his lack of size and struggles to stop the run, Roh has seemed most comfortable on the D-Line. Has anyone heard anything with regard to the new staff's plans for him?

I'm completely in favor of winning and losing with class. With that being said, those who think the aforementioned varying degrees of "trash-talking" is anything out of the ordinary are pretty naive. Anyone who has ever spent a day on an athletic team or an hour in a locker room, or an afternoon spent playing intramural sports, knows that "trash-talking" is a part of competition. To think that Lucas and the rest of the Spartans were innocent in this regard is equally ignorant.

Take a look at that press conference of Izzo--not the most likeable individual in defeat. It's easy to come off classy when your program is on top, but true colors show in defeat. Also, gotta love Mark Hollis' original tweet as well. Classy.